Reviewed and recognized as the most authoritative source in the field, this book describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime. In this latest edition, everything has been clarified, updated and expanded. This edition includes new and updated information on recovery procedures and materials; chemical enhancement; footwear manufacturing; footwear sizing; and known impression techniques and materials.

Besides updating and expanding the twelve original chapters, Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery and Examination, Second Edition adds three new chapters: one chapter on barefoot evidence, which concerns impressions made by the naked or sock-clad foot or those which remain in abandoned or discarded footwear; a new chapter on several cases in which footwear impression evidence was of primary importance in bringing about a conviction or confession; and finally, a chapter on the footwear impression evidence in the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases. This book is required reading for the IAI Footwear Certification Program.